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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

pretty much responsible for class move
ments and the class distinctions which they
serve to exaggerate and perpetuate. There
never was class movement in this country
that there was not brood of politicians
hanging to its skirts anxious to appropriate
or be appropriated by it. These demagogues
are of high and low degree from Council
man to Congressman, from the petty place
seeker who pipes his tin whistle in the ward
meeting to the political magnate who blows
his fog horn in the United States Senate,
and, one and all, they are ready to sell them
selves and their so. called souls to any and
every class movement that is a power in
politics or promises to become so. We do
not say that all men in politics are of this
class, but their number is very great. They
abound in both parties, and are political
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20
THE nGLASSu DEMAGOGUES.

Congressman Benjamin Butterworth, of
Ohio, who, by the way, is a shrewd and
able man, was asked in New York what he
thought about the Labor party. He replied
"Wby, l do not know anything about Labor
party The newspapers are pretty much re-
sponsible for these lnvidious class distinctions
There are no classes in the United States
When l was boy l never heard of such a
thing as class distinction. 1t is only lately
that such distinctions are named. This is
republic, and we have no classes" The state
ment that we have no classes in the United
States needs to be qualified somewhat. We
have nothing like Europe has. There, class
means caste, and it is next to impossible for
man to get above or out Of the class in which
gulf fixed between classes Here it is very
different. Class lines are imaginary. Men
cross and recross them every day. Fully half
the capitalists in the country were once labor
ers, and the grandsons of many of them will
have to work again for living The poor to-
day are the rich Tomorrow, and vice versa
The man of labor in early life is the gentle
man of leisure later. The only classes we
have are the rich and tho poor, and these are
constantly interchangng and dissolviug one
into the other. These classes if they can be
called so, have existed in all ages and all gov
/ ernments and viii continue to exist to the
end of time. But is it true, as Mr.. Butter
worth says, that 'the newspapers are pretty
much responsible for these invidious class
distinctions" We think not. There are very
/ few avowedly class newspapers IN the country,
and these are mostly comparatively
obscure, and of limited influence.
The great body of the American
press is opposed to class distinctions, and
honestly and earnestly deprecates anything
of the kind, any agitation or movement in
that direction. All the newspapers of this
country that amount to anything are opposed
to class movements in politics, regarding
thera as opposed to republican ideas and dan
gerous in their tendencies. In our opinion
it is the politicians and demagogues who are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

country. What justice is suffering from, and
in some places almost dying from, is the pres
ence of timid book worms. precedent-slaves,
all about law and forget all about justice.
The encomium upon Chief justice Cartier,
which we quote from the address of his col
league, Justice Hagner. is the greatest COM
pliment that could be paid his memory and
character. The same can be said of John
Marshall and few other great lights of juris-
prudence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

GENERAL LAwToN, the newly appointed
minister to Austria was quartermaster-g
eral of the Confederacy during the war.
"You will know" he says in an interview,
''that the Southern quartermasteri did not
have as easy time as the Northern one
Our ports were blockaded, and we had no
field like the North to draw our supplies
from. I am prouder of my achievements at
1t is sad to think this worthy patriot had to
wait more than twenty years for the success
of the Democratic party before he could
claim reward for his services to the Con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE world do move. Comes now the
Charleston News and Courier and raises its
voice in protest against the conduct of a cor
oner's jury in that State, which held an in
man, and, in the face of personal and undis-
puted knowledge that the crime was commit
ted by certain white youth, found that he
came to his death ''at the hands of some per-
son unknown to the jury. Time was, and
very recently, too, that the mention by a
Northern paper of such an occurrence would
be Indignantly denounced by the fiery Courier
as SANDER on 'our people,"
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Real art pays

THE President is to be invited to visit ST.
Louis, and it is hoped to capture him by the
weight and magnitude of the invitation. It
will be signed by 100000 persons, and be
bound in massive volume. The committee
were thoughtful enough to include Mrs.
Cleveland, who is referred to as your estima-
BILE wife" and the President is assured that
1--WE will endeavor to make your visit pleas
urable and memorable to you and yours. "
The delicate phraseology of the invitation,
and the graceful conception of binding it in a
big volume are expected to have quite stun
ming effect on the President. f4iA49z
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20
THE COUNCIL AND THE STREET CABS,

THE CUUNClL AND THE STREET CARS.
When Councilman Swain offered resolu-
ton that the Council recommend to the citi-
zens patronizing the street railway company
that, on and after June l, 1887, they refuse
to deposit their fares in box. but, on de-
mand, tender them to the driver, another
member suggested that there is an ordinance
requiring every body who gets on car to act
as conductor. Not having at hand the
certified ordinances relative to the street rail-
way, we cannot say whether this is so or not,
but if there is no such ordinance its passage
has been overlooked. Different councils have
done all in their power to enlarge and extend
the privileges Of the company, and tie the
hands of the people, and if they have failed
in any point it must have been an oversight.
The company has never asked anything from
the Council that it did not get, nor the public
anything in this regard that it did get. The
suggestion that the people should refuse to
drop their fares in the box does not come
within the purview Of councilmanic action.
The people can take that step of their own
motion, if they see fit. What they would like
from the Council is some evidence of dis
position to compel the company to conform to
its charter and show some regard to the COM
fort and convenience of the public, whose
streets it uses. There has not been day for
years that it's charter could not have been
revoked if the city authorities had been will
| ing to assert the rights of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

SENATOR JONES, Of Florida, is conducting
his canvass for reelection from Detroit. This
is the most remarkable case of senatorial
absenteeism on record, and if Jones succeeds
it will be a political long haul without pre-
cedent. There are three other candidates in
: she. feld and Jones's plan of campaign is to
hold himself in reserve until they have all ex-
hausted themselves and then rush in and cap
ture the prize. This is very pretty plan on
paper, but the indications are it will not work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20
THE VOTE IN MICHIGAN.

Experience shows that the popular vote
on constitutional amendments is usually small
compared with the vote on candidates for
Office. AS rule, the people do not take
very lively interest in proposed amendments
to their Constitution, and comparatively little
effort is made to get out full vote. The case
of the prohibition amendment recently voted
on in Michigan seems to have been an excep-
ton. The official returns show remarkably
full vote The Detroit Tribune says that
when prohibition was submitted to a popular
vote in that State in 1865 and 1876, the vote
on it was much less than that cast for State
officers, while the vote for other constitu-
tional amendments has frequently not ex
ceeded one-fourth Of that cast for State officers
at the same election. In the recent election
the vote prohibition exceeded that on any
other part of the ticket In sixty-seven
counties, from which the full official returns
were first received, the aggregate vote on the
long term judges was 308, 7l9, on shortterm
944, an excess OF over 1900 for the latter.
This excess was most noticeable in strong
prohibition counties. Thus, twelve of these
showed II, ll3 votes on the judicial ticket, and
73, $50 for the amendment, showing that over
300 voters in those counties went to the
polls and voted for prohibition who did not
take interest enough in the Judicial election
to vote. The vote shows that in those coun-
ties large majority of the people favor
prohibition, and, under a local option law,
could have it. On the other hand, the vote
in the strong anti-prohibition counties was
correspondingly strong the other way, showing
the practical impossibility of enforcing prohi-
btion in those counties, even if it were
adopted The interest on both sides is shown
by the fact that the aggregate vote was much
larger than was ever cast at any spring cleo
ton, and has been exceeded only twice in the
history of the State.
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federacv.
THE railway managers of the country, VIII,

THE railway managers of the country, who
have been doing all they could to make the
interstate commerce law burdensome upon the
public. and thereby odious hoping to develop
hostile public sentiment that would force it's
repeal, probably received an access of informa-
from the commission. While believing the
new law started in wrong end foremost, the
Journal, nevertheless. repeats its repeated
statement. that the principle of regulating
the railways by the power of the government
will not be receded from. Railway managers
will do we'll to make up their minds to that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE family which owns no horse and car
riage, and is unable to hire private convey
ance, says final farewell to its dead on the
day Of the burial in Crown Hill. There are
great number Of such families in Indianapolis,
but their interests are not Of sufficient impor-
lance to the City Council to cause it to exer-
else an authority over the street railway com
pany, and order the building of line which
would afford transport tion to the cemetery
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

WHEN a question of benefting the city
comes up, the City Council can be depended
on to say at can't be done" in more
languages than are taught in the public
schools. What indianapolis needs is men in
charge of its affairs who are blessed with suf-
fcient energy, enterprise and local pride to
enable them now and then to declare with
emphasis that the needed improvement must
and shall be made, and then to oyerco me the
obstacles in the way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20
The Sunday Newspaper.

Philadei phia Times. s4-rz
The sunday editions of the great daily jour-
nails of Inc country have become the home news
papers of the land. The weekly literary news
paper o ace the visitor every family OF intell-
gence h IS passed away. Its mission has been
fulfilled and it's place occupied by the COM
pietely-e uuipped newspaper establishment that
commands not only the news from every part OF
the world. but that commands also the best lit
erature Oh every country.
The Sunday newspaper not only nus the place
of the one ,-popular literary weekly but il fur
nishes a G. complete newspaper besides and the
great and growing demand for the reputable
Sunday ior rnal has enabled It to multiply its
pares aud present in each issue along with the
fullest. bri yhtest, and most reliable news, ev-
erything tn; It is needed for the entertainment
and instruct, ion of the home circle 1t is read
bv all the members of the family. as IL can be
placed in th, hands of all, old and young with
safety
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

EVERY decent man in the State will rejoice
at the complete victory of Captain White in
the contest of his congressional seat on the
ground of his lack of citizenship. The fact
Of his naturalization is proved beyond contro-
versy. Of course, when the Captain affirmed
it that was sufficient to satisfy anybody but
such man and Democrat as Bob Lowry; but
he thought he could steal the seat, by the aid
of rascally partisan majority, through the
possible failure of Captain White to be able to
legally establish the fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

night The sale was a fairly good one in
commercial sense. A landscape by Rousseau,
that used to stand in Mr.. Probasco's parlor,
sold for $2l, 900. The size of the painting is
twenty by twenty-one inches. A picture by
Millet, Peasants Bringing Home Calf Born
in the Fields brought $751; 500, and a sunset
scene by Breton $4,000. Twenty of the
highest-priced pictures brought 1926. $50. and
a number of others ran into the thousands.
Real art paws
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

ST. LOUIS newspapers have just found out
that each passenger on railroad trains pays IS
cents toll for crossing the bridge into that
city if he holds a through ticket from New
York They were under the impression that
% cents was the sum charged, and while they
very properly regard even that as exorbitant,
have not been disposed to take up ANS for
the travelling public. A toll Of Is cents is a
different matter, in that it may interfere with
mand for decrease of the rate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

UNDER the new Maine liquor law man
who gets drunk once is subject to fine of
$40, or thirty days imprisonment. For being
drunk the second time he must 60 to Jail
whether or no. This will bear very hard on
that noble class of men who can either ''take
it or let it alone" but are rather fond of TAX
ing it. At any rate, great hullabaloo is be-
ing raised over the matter by Maine citizens,
who object to any interference with their
sspersonal liberty"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20
THAT member of the Citv Council who O,

THAT member of the City Council who ex-
pressed alarm over the proposal that street
car passengers should decline to be their own
conductors was unnecessarily solicitous for
the 'honor" of his fellow citizens. When
judges Congressman and high department
officials at Washington combine together and
refuse to deposit their fare in the street-car
boxes of certain penurious line in that city,
the charge of dishonesty will hardly stand
Indianapolis honor will take care of ITSELF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

EVEN Mayor is not infallible. With due
Difference to the wisdom and sound Judgment
of Mayor Denny, it may not be impertinent
to suggest that it is not always well to decide
until it has been tried. Even Chief Webster's
arguments against the sprinkling of the streets
by the fire department are not thoroughly
convincing to. those who were not, like the
Mayor, sure beforehand that it couldn't be
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trict Supreme Court, Washington, was accus-
toned to say of himself that he had not been
profound student of the law, and he was never
deeply trained in the learning of books. But
he possessed mind of great breadth and
vigor and Of rare acuteness, with faculty of
perceiving with rapidity and clearness those
points in cause which he considered decisive
of the real questions involved. How refresh
ing it would be to see a regiment of Justice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

whole State, is already breeding a revolt
against the impolitic nonsense of uniform
favor of high license and other restrictive
regulations for large towns and cities is de-
veloping. AT present liquor is sold in those
places in defiance of the law, and without
contributing dollar to the extraordinary
expense the traffic lays upon honorable and
law-abiding people and business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

dianapolis schools and very few persons are
benefited by the outlay. Nine thousand dol
lars would go long way towards laying the
dust in the streets, and thereby atfording
comfort to the entire population. The great
majority of taxpayers would willingly trade
share in a sprinkling cart.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

CARTER HARRIsoNs farewell address to
the Chicago City Council on Monday took
the form of forty-four page pamphlet, and
required two hours and half for its reading.
When he got through, even the most loyal of
his long suffering listeners were of the opin-
ion that nothing in Mr.. Harrison's official
career became him like going out of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

DoGBERRY row only needs to make itself
the asylum for the lquor-law breakers to fill
up the cup of public contempt to where it
will run over. Justices who permit their
courts to shield criminals will find their occu-
patton gone. When election day comes round
it will be discovered that taly-sheet forgers
and law breakers do not own the majority of
the votes of indianapolis and of Marion county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

If the street-car company will only interest
itself in the matter and ask that the streets
be sprinkled at public expense, there is some
hope for us. If there is no law authorizing
such thing, the City Council will make one
if the streetrailway company is willing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE rain and snow of Monday were fol-
lowed yesterday by bright sunshine and a
dry air. With southerly wind it will soon
be warm again, and the dust nuisance will be
as great as ever. This is one of the questions
which, like the dust itself, will not down.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

The newlY-appointed judge of the United
States Court for Southern Illinois was vile,
rank copper-head during the war, against
coercion, opposed to the CONSUMPTION act,
against the enlistment of colored soldiers, and
in the Thirty-seventh Congress declared that
Southern Illinois must either be the home of
white men or black men. They cannot live
together OF such is the kingdom of Cleve-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE st. Louis Post-Dispatch congratulates
the Hendricks Club of that city "on the pro-
motion of one of its jealous workers, who has
been selected to serve the State for two wears
in the penitentiary at Jefferson City" Let
us see, do the tally.sheet forgers belong to the
Hendricks Club hereP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

ANARCHIST MosT is still of the opinion
that American jails are the worst in the world.
If he is pining for his old quarters in
European prison, no right minded person will
lay a OBTAINING hand upon him, but will
rather hasten his departure by contributing
to the purchase of Storage ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE heavy frost of Monday night doubtless
did considerable damage in central and
northern Indiana though it will probably be
found that small fruits were not sufficiently
advanced to be injured The benefit from
the timely rain will more than compensate the
damage by the frost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

SLY Mr.. Cleveland is putting out feelers in
the shape of alleged resolves to take no part
in the next presidential race. 1t is an old
dodge. and doesn't always work as expected
If Mr.. Cleveland looked for loud and over
whelming protest against his determination,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE splendid collection of paintings form
erly owned by Mr.. Henry Probasco, of Gin
cinnati, and which for many years constituted
one of the chief art attractions of that city,
was sold at auction in New York on Monday
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

DUST an inch thick has settled upon the
City Council. Unless that body stirs around
with little more activity and energy than
has been recently displayed, it will be cheaper
and better for the city to get brand new
Council than to try to furnish up the old one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

YESTERDAY was the first clear day during
the month in which the sky was not obscured
by clouds of dust. The privilege of having
clean streets and clear skies at once is one
which only occurs in indianapolis after rain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE new ironclad liquor law Of Maine, the
fifteenth or sixteenth passed in that State to
aid in the enforcement Of constitutional
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fortably.

The Grant monument committee now
think $500, 900 sufficient for the proposed
memorial to the dead chieftain. It would
seem that for 5000, 600 Indiana should secure
q very creditable monument
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ernments

IT is very evident that what thu City Coun-
Gil needs is little more pressure brought to
bear upon it. Let the people who want the
streets sprinkled express their desires to the
representatives. of their respective wards in
plain and unmistakable terms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

AMONG the delegates to be sent from two
wards. to the Louisville city Democratic con-
vention are nine saloon keepers, one of whom
is murderer and an ex-convict. This tells
the story of municipal corruption in city gov
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE Indianapolis public has no "crow to
pick with the drivers of the street cars. AS
rule these men are obliging and courteous
to passengers. and rudeness is the exception.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THE Evelyn College is a new school for
young women at Princeton, N. j. 1t is expected
that the girls who attend will be animated by
sweet spirit of sympathy with the young gentle
men students of "Adelbert" College, at Cleve-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

IT should be stated for Squire Smock that
he says his court cannot be used to defeat the
intention of the police and of the Mayor to
properly enforce the liquor law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

IT is altogether likely that the fire depart
ment, if allowed vote on the matter, will
decide unanimously that it is impossible and
impracticable" for it to sprinkle the streets
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THEY have it in other cities. One of our
esteemed contemporaries exclaims: 'Let the
hose pipe and the watering-cart come on
Turn the dust out and keep it outn'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

THERE is a crying demand for streetcar
line running to Crown Hill. Does the City
Council know of any law which prohibits the
building of such line?